After weeks of being the laughingstock of the wildly popular mockumentary film, Kazakhstan could end up laughing all the way to the bank as curious tourists flock there to find out if it’s true you can buy a local bride for 15 gallons of pesticide. (It’s not.)

Hotels.com reported last week that that there has been a 300 percent jump in Internet searches for hotel accommodations in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, since “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Great Nation of Kazakhstan” hit theaters.

Travelers have been warned by certain guidebooks, however, that just because an Astana hotel will accept bookings online does not mean that the hotel actually exists.

Travel agents in the United States and Britain say they have seen a big increase in inquiries about trips to Kazakhstan since the Sacha Baron Cohen flick was released.

The movie, which stars Cohen as a faux Kazakh journalist making a fool out of himself and others, has been a smash hit, grossing more than $116 million in the United States in the past five weeks.

“There are adventurous baby boomers with time and money who see Kazakhstan as the new frontier,” one agent said.

In anticipation of a new wave of tourists, Travelex, the foreign currency-exchange company, has ordered nearly $1 million in teng, the currency of Kazakhstan.

And Kazakh Embassy officials in Washington told The Times of London that it has been getting 100 calls per week asking advice for how to visit and what to expect in the country.

“I’ve had to tell many Americans that drinking horse urine is not popular in our country,” said Roman Vassilenko, the embassy’s beleaguered press secretary, who has grown weary of fielding inquiries about the veracity of preposterous claims made in “Borat.”

But other Kazakhs are taking less offense, seeing the movie’s humor as a selling point for their businesses.

Sayat Tours, a travel company based in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Almaty, is using the slogan, “Take that, Borat,” to market its “Kazakhstan vs. Boratstan Tour” of “the country’s spectacular deserts, soaring mountains and beautiful women.”